absinth

[punjar]

Edgar Allan Poe,Voltaire,Pablo Picasso,Ernest Hemmingway,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Vincent Van Gogh,Oscar Wilde,Paul Gaugin ,Eduoard Manet,Edgar Degas,Henri Toulouse-Lautrec,Mark Twain,Jack London,Paul Marie Verlaine,CHARLES CROS,ALFRED JARRY,ARTHUR RIMBAUD,Charles Baudelaire,Ernest Dowson,Emile Zola,Paul Cezanne,August Strindberg,Adolphe Monticelli

All these famous and very influential people were avid drinkers of absinthe. I recently decided to try it and its on its way over from Europe as I type. I was wondering if any of you have tried or do it. Any information or testimonials would be great. Thanks.

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Edgar Allan Poe,Voltaire,Pablo Picasso,Ernest Hemmingway,Sherlock Holmes,Vincent Van Gogh,Oscar Wilde,Paul Gaugin ,Eduoard Manet,Edgar Degas,Henri Toulouse-Lautrec,Mark Twain,Jack London,Paul Marie Verlaine,CHARLES CROS,ALFRED JARRY,ARTHUR RIMBAUD,Charles Baudelaire,Ernest Dowson,Emile Zola,Paul Cezanne,August Strindberg,Adolphe Monticelli

All these famous and very influential people were avid drinkers of absinthe. I recently decided to try it and its on its way over from Europe as I type. I was wondering if any of you have tried or do it. Any information or testimonials would be great. Thanks.

Poe also drank himself to death.
Volatire hung himself
Picasso could very well have been crazy
Hemmingway shot himself
Conan Doyle was a strong believer in the occult and spiritualism
Van Gogh cut off part of his ear
Oscar Wilde was a convicted homosexual
Gaugin killed himself
From what I can tell, Manet is an upstanding guy
Much of Degas' work depicts graphic sex
Toulouse-Lautrec was institutionalized many times
Mark Twain was a recluse much of his life
London commited suicide with Morphine
Verlaine shot a man
Cros lived a good life
Jarry died of alcoholism at 34
Rimbaud was a slave dealer
Bauldelaire was heavily addicted to opium, and in debt his whole life
Dowson sounds aight
Zola blocked his own chimney and died of CO poisoning
Cezanne had an affair with his step mother
Strindberg was aparrently a great man
Montecelli seems alright


Not saying that anything these people did is wrong or right, or that they weren't geniuses in the realm of art, but I don't think they were all in their right minds, and I certainly don't think the absinth drinking part of their life should be idolized.

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oh and the oscar dude is homo

[Subjugation]

It would probably be easier to compile a list of ppl who didn't didn't drink absynthe than those who did. It was very popular before the modern age of distilling spirits.

[punjar]

ha. put sherlock holmes. amusing. meant to put Arthur Conan Doyle.

[GoldenPlums]

What are the ingredients of what you have ordered?

[Subjugation]

I think some dude went nuts in switzerland after getting wasted on absynthe, then it got banned. However, they didn't consider the effects of syphilis, or the fact that absynthe in the early 20th century was like...150 proof. Maybe that had more to do with it than the wormwood it was distilled with.

It's just a fucking myth that the green faerie has magic powers.

[Liquid Blue]

Why do you want to drink it? Just because some old famous people did? I don't really get the point, it's not going to turn you into a genius overnight or anything..

[punjar]

Why do you want to drink it? Just because some old famous people did? I don't really get the point, it's not going to turn you into a genius overnight or anything..

wow. thanks for enlightening me. now i dont wanna drink it. again. thank you. jerkoff.

so has anyone tried it or do we just wanna talk about the people i put up there that use to drink it?

[Fit of Rage]

Absinth is like 180 proof, if you drink more than a couple ounces per couple hours you'll die of alcohol poisoning.

[Cops]

it tastes like shit, if you drink the real stuff you can trip balls. Canadian absinth - stuff they sell in the stores is garbage, my friend got the real stuff and had a horrible trip seeing shit come out of the walls.

With any chemical research it first, have a safe area and whatever you do avoid cops. I got loaded up about a year ago my friend was being a douche so i left his house i was tripping mad balls and i asked a cop for help, he was fucking with me. I was pretty nice about the whole situation "i said hi, i need help, i'm on chemicals and i need a ride home, i can't remember my phone number". After 10 minutes of the cop fucking around with me, i bailed.

[Jeansi]

I still hallucinate sometime.

[cundor]

Waiter, one beer plz, ty

[Suh]

i had 2 tiny sips, and i mean *tiny* and i had to get the bus home from a friends house with sick in my hair not remembering the night before. drinking other liquids after some how makes it a hell of a lot worse